Robert Bathurst of Downton Abbey, Cold Feet, and currently playing the role of Charles in the hit play King Charles III at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, is presenting a special performance for one night only of his stage show Love, Loss & Chianti by the award winning UK poet Christopher Reid, along with Runcible Theatre’s Sarah Chalcroft.

The Show

Love, Loss & Chianti is a great opportunity to see the work of one of the Britain’s finest living poets performed amongst the spectacular contemporary art at the Gruen Galleries. The evening will feature two poems by Reid; the first poem A Scattering explores love and loss, the second poem The Song of Lunch involves a lot of drinking, hence the title of the show! A Scattering won the Costa Book Of The Year, and is about the death of Reid’s wife. Never mawkish, it is a beautiful and ultimately uplifting evocation of grief. The second, The Song Of Lunch is about a disastrous date in an Italian restaurant in Soho, hilarious and poignant.